Clergy Dissent in the Old South 1830-1865

[Craig Hipkins]

Some abolitionist preachers were even murdered in the North. Elijah Lovejoy was shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton Illinois in 1837. The mob had come to burn down his warehouse and destroy his printing press.
As a young politician in Springfield, Abraham Lincoln mentioned Lovejoy in his Lyceum Address in 1838.